Metropolitan

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

Genre : ComedyDramaRomance

Runtime : 99 mins

Release Date : 1990-08-03

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Whit Stillman’s _Metropolitan_ offers a witty and arch glimpse into the lives of Upper East Side debutantes and their slightly aimless escorts during Christmas break. It's like _The Breakfast Club_, but with black-tie soirées instead of detention and ironic detachment and spirited Jane Austen debat...

Cast

Edward Clements

(Tom Townsend)

Chris Eigeman

(Nick Smith)

Taylor Nichols

(Charlie Black)

Carolyn Farina

(Audrey Rouget)

Isabel Gillies

(Cynthia McLean)

Dylan Hundley

(Sally Fowler)

Allison Parisi

(Jane Clarke)

Bryan Leder

(Fred Neff)

Will Kempe

(Rick Von Sloneker)

Ellia Thompson

(Serena Slocum)

Stephen Uys

(Victor Lemley)

Roger W. Kirby

(Man at Bar)

Alice Connorton

(Mrs. Townsend)

Linda Gillies

(Mrs. Rouget)

John Lynch

(Allen Green)

Donal Lardner Ward

(North Greenwich Preppie)

Thomas R. Voth

(Cab Driver)

Caroline Bennett

(Sabina - Texas Deb)

Francis Creighton

(Cadet Frawley)

Joel S. Schreiber

(A.T. Harris Salesman)

Catherine Atzen

(Catherine Atzen Clinician)

J. Harden Rose

(TV Voice of Debutante Ball (voice))